To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.